Re: ftp.au.kernel.org added for a local kernel mirror

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From: jason andrade
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00

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billm@melbpc.org.au (Bill Metzenthen) writes:

>Based on my (single) observation, I think that .gz is the better
>choice.  Uncompressing .bz2 files appears to be a real memory hog.  I
>once made the mistake of downloading a large .bz2 compressed file to a
>machine with 8MByte memory.  Uncompressing it caused the machine to
>swap like crazy; from memory, it took nearly an hour to complete the
>uncompressing.

it's not just memory.. i saw some benchmarks that show it's also
far more cpu intensive than .gz is for linux kernel files.

comparing gzip -9 (not the default) and bzip2, you can get between
12-40% byte savings, but it can take 2-5 times as long to compress
and decompress files.

-jason
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From: jason@dstc.edu.au (jason andrade)
Subject: Re: ftp.au.kernel.org added for a local kernel mirror
Date: 1999/01/08
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